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Sixty-Sixth Congreii, Third Setsion 



HouM Document No. 1027 



CHARLES F. BOOHER 

(Late a Representative from Missouri) 

MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OF THE UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS 
THIRD SESSION 

February 20, 1921 



PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 



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WASHINGTON 
1922 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page 

Proceedings in the House 5 

Prayer by Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D 5 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 7 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Champ Clark, of Missouri 9 

Mr. Clement C. Dickinson, of Missouri 11 

Mr. Fritz G. Lanham, of Texas 13 

Mr. Milton A. Romjue, of Missouri 16 

Mr. Walter W. Magee, of New York 18 

Mr. Rufus Hardy, of Texas 19 

Mr. William A. Ashbrook, of Ohio 21 

Mr. Edward C. Little, of Kansas 22 

Proceedings in the Senate 25 



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DEATH OF HON. CHARLES F. BOOHER 



PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE 



Friday, January 21, 1921. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 

Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., pastor of Calvary 
Methodist Church, Washington, D. C, offered the follow- 
ing prayer: 

Almighty God, lead us into all constructive truth; de- 
liver us from all destructive ignorance; illumine our 
minds so that our characters shall be the direct offsprings 
of our understanding. Grant that the Angel of Peace and 
the Angel of Mercy abide around about the fireside of the 
one who is stricken to-day, and may our citizens every- 
where deal justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with 
their God. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Mr. RucKER. Mr. Speaker, it becomes my painful duty to 
announce to the House the death of our colleague, Hon. 
Charles F. Booher, of the fourth district of Missouri, who 
died this morning at 6.50. At a suitable time I shall ask 
the House to set aside a day at which proper exercises can 
be held commemorative of his life and public services. 
For the present I offer the following resolution and ask 
for its adoption. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow 
of the death of Hon. Charles F. Booher, a Representative from 
the State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of 15 Members of the House, with 
such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carry- 

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ing out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

Mr. RucKER. Mr. Speaker, I move the adoption of the 
resolution. 

The question was taken, and the resolution was unani- 
mously agreed to. 

The Speaker. The Chair appoints the following com- 
mittee. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Mr. Clark of Missouri, Mr. Romjue, Mr. Milligan, Mr. Major, Mr. 
Igoe, Mr. Rucker, Mr. McPhcrson, Mr. Lanham, Mr. Hull of Iowa, 
Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Mudd, Mr. Little, Mr. McClintic, Mr, Sanders 
of Louisiana, and Mr. Nicholls. 

Mr. Rucker. Mr. Speaker, I offer a further resolution. 
The Clerk read as follows : 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
adjourn. « 

The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 4 o'clock and 
25 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to-morrow, 
Saturday, January 22, 1921, at 12 o'clock noon. 

Saturday, January 22, i921. 
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of 
its clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the 
following resolution: 

Senate resolution 431 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow 
the announcement of the death of Hon. Charles F. Booher, late 
a Representative from the State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of six Senators be appointed by 
the Vice President, to join the committee appointed by the House 
of Representatives, to take order for the superintending of the 
funeral of Mr. Booher at Savannah, Mo. 

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Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
resokitions to the House of Representatives. 

Resolved, That as a furtlicr mark of respect the Senate do now 
adjourn. 

And that the Vice President had appointed as the com- 
mittee on the part of the Senate Mr. Reed, Mr. Spencer, 
Mr. Trammell, Mr. Fernald, Mr. Dial, and Mr. Capper. 

Saturday, Februanj 5, 1921. 

Mr. RucKER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
Sunday, February 20, 1921, be set aside as a day for ad- 
dresses on the life, character, and public services of the 
late Representative Booher, of Missouri. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani- 
mous consent that Sunday, February 20, 1921, be set aside 
for memorial exercises in memory of the late Representa- 
tive Booher, of Missouri, to follow the exercises for the 
late Senator Martin, of Virginia. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

Saturday, February 19, 1921. 
The Speaker appointed Mr. Rucker to preside over the 
memorial exercises in honor of the late Representative 
Booher, to be held Sunday, February 20, 1921. 

Sunday, February 20, 1921. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to 
order by Mr. Rucker as Speaker pro tempore. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., of Wash- 
ington, D. C, offered the following prayer: 

Our Father in heaven, before entering upon the sacred 
duties of the hour we humbly and reverently bow in Thy 
presence that we take increased devotion to the sacred 
dead who died at their posts leaving behind them an 
enviable record. Members of this legislative body dead 
though they live in the memory of those who knew them. 

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Let Thy loving arms be about their friends, colleagues, 
especially the members of their respective families, to 
uphold and sustain them till the mists have rolled away, 
for when the stars shall fade and crumble into impal- 
pable dust we shall live and love in eternal glory; for it 
is writ in letters of light, " I am the resurrection and the 
life; he that believeth in me shall never die "; for Thine is 
the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
special order of the day. 
The Clerk read as follows : 

On motion of Mr. Rucker, by unanimous consent. 

Ordered, That Sunday, February 20, 1921, be set apart for 

addresses on the life, character, and public service of Hon. 

Charles F. Booher, late a Representative from the State of 

Missouri. 

Mr. Dickinson of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I offer the fol- 
lowing resolution. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
resolution. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

House Resolution 690 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, 
that an opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of 
Hon. Charles F. Booher, late a Member of this House from the 
State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career, the House, at the conclusion of the exercises of this day, 
shall stand adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
the family of the deceased. 

The question was taken and the resolution was unani- 
mously agreed to. 

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Address of Mr. Clark, of Missouri 

Mr. Dickinson of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I siigfjcst that 
the remarks of Ex-Speaker Clark he read by the Clerk at 
this time. They are in writing, and it is at the recjiiest of 
Mr. Clark, who is absent on account of sickness. 

The Speaker pro tempore. Without objection, the re- 
quest of the gentleman will be granted. 

There was no objection. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Mr. Speaker: An old Latin proverb reads, when trans- 
lated into American — 

Concerning the dead, speak nothing but that which is good. 

There is no difficult}' in carrying out this injunction 
when we come to speak of our friend and fellow Member 
of the House of Representatives, Charles F. Booher, of 
Missouri, who has gone to join the great majority of the 
men who have, since the foundation of our Government, 
done service in this House. 

Charles F. Booher was one of the most likeable men I 
ever knew. A sensible man. A reasonable man. A de- 
pendable man without being in any respect a showy per- 
son, he was nevertheless able to take a man's part in all the 
legislative business which came up for consideration in 
the sessions of Congress in which he served. 

In debate he spoke to the point, and stopped when he 
came to it. He was not given to long-winded orator}-. 
The St. Joseph district has sent able men to represent it 
in Washington. When I first came here after the Demo- 
cratic landslide of 1892, Representative Burncs had just 
died, and had been succeeded by his son, who was in turn 
succeeded by Charles Fremont Cochran, one of the most 
brilliant men that Missouri has sent here. 

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The St. Joseph district did the remarkable thing of 
electing Gov. Willard P. Hall to Congress while he was 
serving in Doniphan's expedition. It is one of the richest 
districts in America. The Missouri and other large 
streams furnish the rich bottom lands which made great 
wealth. 

What now constitutes the St. Joseph district did not at 
first belong to Missouri. When first constituted the State 
of Missouri's west line ran north and south through the 
mouth of the Kaw, which left six great counties now con- 
stituting the St. Joseph district to the west of that line 
and out in the cold generally. 

In 1836 Senator Lynn, perhaps the most popular man 
that ever lived in the State, introduced a bill to make the 
Platte Purchase a part of Missouri. In this he had the 
loyal help of Senator Benton. . : -- 

The strange part of this story is that the act of the 10th 
of August, 1821, solemnly signed by the President, ac- 
cepted Missouri as slave territory and dedicated all the 
rest of the great Northwest to freedom. Now, here they 
were, 16 years later, adding one of the greatest agricul- 
tural districts in America onto a slave territory, with 
scarcely a chirp from the Abolitionists and emotionalists 
up North. Everybody interested in it was satisfied. No- 
body else counted. If the people of the Platte Purchase 
district of Missouri had a just appreciation of the obliga- 
tion they are under to Lynn and Benton, they would rear 
a monument of testimonial marble to these great Senators 
that would touch the very heavens. Whether or not they 
will ever accomplish this duty remains to be seen. But 
it is meet and fitting that I should on this occasion and in 
this presence pronounce this eulogy on our absent but 
well-beloved Member, Charles F. Booher. 

As a Member of Congress and in all the relations of life, 
those who speak of him may say, " He dared do all that 
doth become a man; who dares do more is none." 

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Address of Mr. Dickinson, or Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: I regret that I have no chosen, well- 
selected remarks to speak to-day concerning this distin- 
guished Missourian. It was my peculiar privilege to know 
Judge Booher intimately. His career as a public man 
was an unusual one. He came to this House by the choice 
of his constituents for seven consecutive terms, in addi- 
tion to having been selected a number of years ago to fill 
a brief unexpired term. Charles F. Booher was the old- 
est member of our delegation. He lived in a small county 
in northwest Missouri. 

A Democrat living in a Republican county, he was so 
regarded and loved and respected that it was his fortune 
to receive from time to time the majority vote of that 
county. He had in his district a large city of over 100,000 
inhabitants, one of the oldest and wealthiest cities in the 
West, with ambitious and strong men desiring to rep- 
resent that district, and yet he was so regarded, loved, 
and respected, and his character was so high, and the 
confidence of the people in him was so great that they 
sent him here for seven consecutive terms. He did not 
ask to be returned at the last election. There was no 
better man ever came to this House than Charles F. 
Booher, a man of sterling integrity, a man of the highest 
character. I heard once a colleague speak of him who 
said he was " pure gold." There was no alloy in liis 
make-up. He was a native of New York, and came to 
Missouri a half century ago, about. Prominent in his 
section both in politics and in the law, he made a reputa- 
tion worth while. He was the leader of his bar. He was 
a strong laNxyer, a man of courage, a man of convictions, 
who made up his own mind as to what he wanted to do 
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own judgment. He was a man of firmness. He had as 
few faults as any man I ever knew. He was loved by 
everybody with whom he came in contact, and he was 
loved and highly regarded by all of his colleagues and 
associates. He will be missed in his own section and by 
his associates here. He has passed away into the great 
beyond, and he has left a record worthy of any man. He 
had no enemies; he was entitled to have none. He had 
lived a good life, and his example is worthy to be fol- 
lowed by all men. 



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Address of Mr. Lanham, of Texas 

Mr. Speaker: Respect for the dead has characterized 
all peoples, and a desire for immortality has inspired and 
encouraged them. The Egyptians tried to preserve for a 
better world the bodies of their friends and loved ones. 
Many of the ancients displayed a cheering faith by plac- 
ing food and drink with the remains of those who were 
dear to them. " The Elysian fields " and " the happy 
hunting ground " have become proverbial. The laws of 
Solon forbade men to speak ill of the dead. Socrates 
taught in his last moments, as he had endeavored to teach 
in his life, that each thing implies its opposite; that the 
foul implies the fair; that cold implies heat; that to die 
implies to live again. And so history records from the 
beginning an onward trend of hope toward the advent of 
the Master. 

We who have been permitted to live in the light of 
Christian revelation have come to know more completely 
the significance of that transition whose meaning the 
ancients so earnestly sought. We need no longer regard 
our departed friends in that hazy and uncertain contem- 
plation of the early times, but we may think of them, 
rather, in the enlightened scope of Christian teaching. 
And with this broader view we come to-day to betoken 
our respect and veneration for a comrade who has passed 
on before us to that greater fullness of light and life. 

It was the good fortune and pleasure both of my father 
and myself to serve in this House with our lamented col- 
league, Charles F. Booher, of Missouri. It was given to 
me to know him only during the present Congress, but in 
that brief acquaintance he seemed to bestow upon me as 
a younger Member a consideration born of that earlier 

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service. I am gratified at this additional opportunity to 
bespeak the reciprocal regard which I cherished for him, 
and also to attest the reverence in which I hold his 
memory. 

Mindful at all times of the obligations and responsibili- 
ties of the high position to which his district had called 
him, he tried, even in the days of affliction and failing 
strength, to render the same faithful service of his more 
active and vigorous years. Almost to the last he strove 
to remain at his post with his hand and his heart in his 
work. He was willing to sacrifice himself for his people 
in that same spirit of fidelity which had marked his entire 
career. 

In the little city of Savannah, Mo., which was so long 
his home, I was impressed with many things which re- 
minded me of the life of devotion to duty which he has 
left as a heritage to his family and friends. Just before 
the last sad service in his honor, as those who had known 
him and who, therefore, mourned his loss looked on his 
form for the last time on earth, there stood at one end 
of the casket a young soldier who had battled for our 
country on foreign fields and at the other a young sailor 
who had helped to maintain our prestige on the seas. 
How singularly appropriate that was, for it must have 
occurred to all, as it did to me, that between these young 
patriots rested one who had fought quite as courageously 
and as well in the legislative halls of our Nation for the 
freedom and the progress of the land he loved. 

Most gratifying was the tribute of words and flowers 
in those final ceremonies, but it was so apparent in that 
large gathering of friends and neighbors and associates 
that his best eulogy is written on the tablets of memory 
in the minds and hearts of all who knew him. 

The congressional party visited his office, where his 
books bespoke his work. We have all sat with him here, 

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Addhess of Mr. Lanmam, of Ti:.\as 



where the voluminous records attest his service. We 
have heard with our ears and have observed in his life 
a reliance upon the hope which the Good Book affords. 
And surely it is fitting that we shound continue to think 
of him in the language of that beautiful epitaph which 
Benjamin Franklin wrote for himself: 

The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, like the cover of an 
old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and 
gilding, lies here food for worms; yet the work itself shall not 
be lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and 
more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the Author. 



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Address of Mr. Romjue, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: We have met in solemn exercise to ex- 
press as best we may our regret at the passing of our 
friend and colleague, the Hon. Charles F. Booher. And 
in the memorial exercises of this day I wish I could ade- 
quately and eloquently picture of him the commendable 
things of which he was so worthy. The State and Nation 
have lost a true and loyal citizen, the community in which 
he lived, in Andrew County, Mo., a neighbor, a friend, 
a benefactor, in the passing of Charles F. Booher. 

He was born January 31, 1848, at East Groveland, N. Y., 
and when a young man cast his energies and fixed his 
purposes upon the solution of life's problems within the 
great midwestern State of Missouri. 

He in due time made his impress upon the community 
in which he had builded his home and established and 
drew about him many warm personal friends, who re- 
mained loyal to him throughout life, the ties of friend- 
ship thus formed so often growing warmer and becoming 
more firm and steadfast as the type of man and character 
of Charles F. Booher unfolded and showed its real 
depths and splendid traits to those about him. 

Charles F. Booher was a man of good judgment. He 
was more anxious to be right and to do the right thing 
and to render service to those whom he represented than 
he was to seek praise or seeming popularity. 

He would rather subject himself to criticism and follow 
a course he believed to be right than to escape that criti- 
cism by following a doubtful course. 

As a Representative in Congress he served his constitu- 
ents faithfully and well. He commanded the friendship 
and respect of those with whom he served, and I am sure 
that the membership of this House feels that in the pass- 
ing of Charles F. Booher a good man, a good Represen- 
tative, and a good citizen has gone from us. 

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Address of Mr. Romjue, of Missouri 

He was not a man who sought to make a show of him- 
self, but was content to serve his coiinlry well witliout 
any personal ambition to be praised for it. 

The fourth Missouri district, one of the richest and 
most splendid in the United States, was well represented 
in Congress by Charles F. Hooiier, and his wise counsel 
and assistance in national legislation will be much missed 
by his colleagues in Congress. 

His chief outstanding quality was his honesty and de- 
termination to do the right thing as a national legislator 
and toward his fellow man. He loved humanity and gave 
the best there was in himself for its cause. 

He was a kind and considerate father and husband, 
devoted to his family and solicitous of their comfort and 
welfare. His children and grandchildren have been left 
a heritage in his life of which they may well be proud. 
The sturdy, rugged honesty and achievements of Chari^s 
F. Booher may well stand as an example of hope and 
encouragement to his posterity, accurately pointing them 
along the rightful highway of life. 

Both life and death to we who arc mortal have quite 
a seeming mystery, but I shall not doubt that the soul of 
man is permanent and everlasting, and when it has passed 
from these temporary bodies over into that great be- 
yond I am convinced that it will be suited to a new 
existence and that a rich reward awaits those who have 
not lived this earthly life in vain. 

So for our friend, our comrade, and our colleague, and 
in his memory I shall not hesitate to feel and believe 
that he has justly earned all the glories of the Divine 
Father's providence for which you and I may hopefully 
strive. 

And so for him, our departed friend, may I say in 
behalf of the membership of the House of Representa- 
tives, peace, peace, everlasting peace. 

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Address of Mr. Magee, of New York 

Mr. Speaker: I do not feel that I should let this occa- 
sion pass without saying a personal word in memory of 
Mr. BooHER. I often think that the sweetest flowers that 
grow are those that bloom over the garden wall of party 
politics. While he and I were not of the same political 
faith, yet we were firm friends. He was born and brought 
up in the town of Groveland, Livingston County, N. Y., in 
the beautiful Genesee Valley country. I was born and 
brought up in the same town. Mr. Booher was one of the 
first men whom I met when I came to the House. I was 
informed that he was a fellow townsman of mine and I 
looked him up. He told me that he knew my father well, 
and that acquaintance with my father formed a firm bond 
of friendship between us that remained for the rest of his 
life. I used to enjoy going to his office and getting him to 
talk to me about the old days when he lived in that town. 
I want to say that I shall miss him very much. 



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Address of Mr. Hardy, of Texas 

Mr. Speaker: I had no thought of saying anything on 
this occasion when I came to the House, but came from 
a drawing of my conscious friendship for Judge Booiier 
to listen to those who knew him longer and perhaps more 
intimately than myself. But I can not withhold a brief 
tribute of my love and respect, and almost veneration, for 
his character. I have often discussed matters with him in 
times of stress, wlien public sentiment was moving the 
hearts and swaying the judgments of men and raising 
questions of political expediency, and I wish to say his 
outstanding characteristic was his intellectual as well as 
his moral integrity. He did not suffer his mind or heart 
to be swayed by the passing clamor into paths which his 
conscience, his calm consideration, could not approve. 
Not only had he the intellectual integrity to know how he 
stood, but he had the moral and the political courage to 
alwaj's let it be known to others where he stood. 

Charles F. Booher, in his life and character, was a 
standing refutation of the oft-repeated criticisms of poli- 
ticians as being truckling timeservers. No man who knew 
Mr. Booher could doubt that there were men in public 
life — and there are thousands like him — who stood above 
the storm and stress of the pressure of public clamor and 
who dared to do right, even as the old Boman did, though 
the heavens fall. 

Mr. Speaker, Charles F. Booher was always in the 
highest sense true to himself, and to his noblest self. 
Being so true, he could not therefore be false to any man. 
He leaves a name and a memory with those who knew 
him best to be cherished while life with them shall last. 

Sometimes standing here on these occasions, where 
we in a feeble way seek to perpetuate our thoughts and 

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memories of those who have gone before us, remembering 
how often we have seen a familiar face and figure down 
there in the well to whom we meet to pay tribute, and 
remembering his voice giving expression to the thoughts 
of his mind to his colleagues of the House, we wonder, is 
that all? Is it all ended? The places that knew him shall 
know him no more. But is it all ended? And the old, 
old question of the ages comes back to us, " If a man die, 
shall he live again?" In a sense he is not dead. His 
example lives. His voice, though silent, speaks to us from 
the grave. But there is another sense in which we believe 
that in the happy beyond the spirits of the just, not made 
perfect, but still progressive, will greet us and help to 
lead us in a never-ending and undying day, and Charles 
F. Booher will be one of those brighter spirits on the other 
shore leading to a loftier and a nobler sphere of existence. 



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Address of Mh. Ashbrook, of Ohio 

Mr. Speaker: I only ask a moment to say just a word 
relative to our dead friend in whose honor these services 
are held to-day. I came to Congress with Judge Booher 
14 years ago. In the old days when each Member had a 
desk on this floor I sat near him. I became acquainted 
with him by degrees. He was rather reticent and re- 
served, but as the years ran along I learned to know him 
well. I enjoyed numerous walks and talks with him, 
and my admiration grew. He proved to be a genial, 
companionable friend, rather given to take the serious 
side of life, but possessed of the traits of character that 
make a lasting and helpful acquaintance. Few men 
among my acquaintances here were more fearless in dis- 
charging their duties. He was conscientious always. He 
believed he was right and let nothing swerve him. That 
firm, square jaw and deep-set eyes were true monitors of 
his life and character. He was rugged and immovable. 
As God gave him the light and vision to discharge his 
duties, he set manfully to do them. I venture that no dis- 
honorable act was ever truthfully charged against him. 
He met the responsibilities of life in a brave and fearless 
manner, and leaves that most priceless heritage — a well- 
spent life — to those who follow^ after him. I know that I 
was benefited by my acquaintance with Judge Booher 
and that his State and the Nation have sustained a real 
loss in his passing. The country and Congress need more 
men like him. 



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Address of Mr. Little, of Kansas 

Mr. Speaker: From Savannah, Mo., to the Capitol at 
Washington and back is a long journey, and one that the 
Hon. Charles F. Booher made during every Congress, 
beginning with the Sixtieth and including the Sixty-sixth. 
At each end he had a host of friends made by his kindly 
nature and held by his high character. 

For 14 long years, through some of the most momentous 
days of the Republic, he represented here six counties of 
the great State of Missouri, including its third city — St. 
Joseph. This he did so well that opposition had almost 
ceased to think of challenging his seat. In these Halls he 
was respected as an intelligent, industrious, and honor- 
able man, a capable representative of those who dele- 
gated their powers to him. In the little city of Savannah 
every citizen held out to him a kindly hand whenever he 
came home. 

Congressman Booher's district was just across the river 
from the one I represent in the State of Kansas. You can 
stand at Quindaro and look up and across the river to 
the hills of Missouri, where Parkville grows up about 
Park College, with that mighty river rolling between. 
After 60 years those States, differing in political views, 
have lived to see the time when the best of friendships are 
maintained between them, and one of the first I was to 
meet here was my neighbor, the gentleman from the 
fourth Missouri district. His interests and mine in the 
success of Missouri River projects were the same and 
made the basis of an acquaintance and friendship which 
brings me here to express the sentiments of admiration 
and respect I retain for him whose memory shall remain 
with me. 



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Address of Mr. Little, of Kansas 



As one ol llio luneral cortege I went to Savannah and 
heard the eulogies delivered there in the heautiful little 
church to which the neighhors came from far and wide 
when the Hon. Charles F. Booiier was laid away in the 
little cemetery to he, for many years to come, the most 
distinguished citizen perhaps of Savannah. That that 
little city should furnish the Congressman for that great 
district so long was due to the sterling work and courte- 
ous kindliness of Mr. Boohhm — a typical American citizen. 
The House of Representatives is made by the Constitu- 
tion the representative body. The Senate, to which come 
as many from Rhode Island as from New York, was 
intended by the Constitution to be a great deliberative 
body where experienced men shall take the last look at 
the legislation which governs the Nation and dominates 
the course of its life. But in a body like this where a 
hundred million people are represented the number of 
those who are absolutely necessary to represent the 
people is such that it can not be as deliberative a body as 
the Senate. The men who actually represent 100,000,000 
other people must be so numerous as to require a limita- 
tion on debate, but the Constitution puts here the sole 
actual representation the people are receiving, and to 
attempt to limit it would be an infringement on the rights 
of the people as announced in that great document. 

These men, therefore, are those who reflect here the 
wishes of the people, and they are of the people as w^as 
Mr. Booher, and this was the secret of his success. He 
was one of those men who represent the average Ameri- 
can sentiment with sound common sense and stable in- 
tegrity. Such men are always useful everywhere, as he 
was here, and especially on that great Rivers and Har- 
bors Committee where he served so long. The delegation 
which accompanied his remains to their last resting place 
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he who, after 14 years in the Congress of the United 
States, completed an unsullied and an honored career 
was entitled to have written upon his final papers that 
his services in this great body were always honest and 
faithful. 

His seat here is vacant, and he will be seen no more. 
But the spring is here and soon the prairie flowers will 
bloom above his honored grave and fill the air there with 
a fragrance as sweet and gentle as the memory of this 
honest, sensible, and gentle man, which will linger in 
these Halls as long as any of those who learned to know 
and love him remain in this House. 

Mr. Dickinson of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- 
mous consent that all Members who desire to extend their 
remarks may have that privilege. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Mis- 
souri asks unanimous consent that all Members may have 
leave to extend their remarks. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

Mr. Dent. Now, Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do 
now adjourn. 

Thereupon, in accordance with the resolution previ- 
ously adopted, the House (at 2 o'clock and 12 minutes 
p. m.) adjourned until Monday, February 21, 1921, at 
12 o'clock m. 



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Friday, Jaimanj 21, 1021. 
Mr. Reed. Mr. President, I have the painful duty to per- 
form of announcing to the Senate the death of Repre- 
sentative Charles F. Booher, of the fourth Missouri (hs- 
trict. The oflicial announcement has not come from the 
House of Representatives, and I would await it but for 
the fact that the funeral service is to be held in the State 
of Missouri at so early a date that it is necessary for the 
Members of Congress who shall be assigned to attend the 
funeral to leave at 6 o'clock this evening. 

Mr. President, Charles F. Booher has been for many 
years a distinguished Member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives. He was a man of the highest character, of 
unimpeachable integrity, and of rare courage. There 
was no public duty which he ever hesitated to perform, 
with an eye single to the public interest and with a total 
disregard of his own personal fortunes. He was beloved 
by the people of his district and of his State. He was a 
typical American Representative and of the best type. 

Mr. President, I ask for the adoption of the resolutions 
which I send to the desk. 

The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 431) were read, considered 
by unaniomus consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
follows : 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the 
announcenient of the death of Hon, Charles F. Booher, late a 
Representative from the State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of six Senators be appointed by the 
Vice President, to join the committee appointed by the House of 

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Representatives, to take order for the superintending of the 
funeral of Mr. Booher at Savannah, Mo. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
lutions to the House of Representatives, 

The Vice President appointed as the committee on the 
part of the Senate Mr. Reed, Mr. Spencer, Mr. Traminell, 
Mr. Fernald, Mr. Dial, and Mr. Capper. 

Mr. Reed. As a further mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased Representative I move that the Senate 
take a recess until to-morrow, January 22, at noon. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at 4 o'clock and 30 
minutes p. m.) the Senate took a recess until to-morrow, 
Saturday, January 22, 1921, at 12 o'clock meridian. 



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